WoRMS taxon details
original description
Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (<i>Asterias</i>, Linnaeus). <em>Annals of the Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up page(s): 286 [details]
original description
(of Scytaster Müller & Troschel, 1842) Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 page(s): 34 [details]
original description
(of Melia Gistel, 1848) Gistel, Johannes [Nepomuk Franz Xaver]. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs: für höhere Schulen. 1-216, i-xvi, pls. 1-32. Stuttgart. Scheitlin & Krais., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526 page(s): 176 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida. <em>In: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies.</em> 4: 187-366. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Clark, A. M. (1967). Notes on asteroids in the British Museum (Natural History) V. <i>Nardoa</i> and some other ophidiasterids. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology.</em> 15(4): 169-198., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336715 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Remark Several of the species in Nardoa were transferred to Gomophia in Rowe & Gates (1995) and elsewhere prior to formal published taxonomic justification. It is uncertain how wid-reaching these changes will have given the lack fo support. [details]
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